bug#6493:

[Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>]

2010/8/1 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>:

> That does not follow _logically_ - we could return the other value (point is
> numeric) or some special value to indicate this condition, but raising an error
> seems like common sense and what users would expect.

That's highly subjective IMHO.

Do you oppose to the following (minimal) version?

    Juanma


=== modified file 'src/editfns.c'
--- src/editfns.c	2010-07-29 15:50:04 +0000
+++ src/editfns.c	2010-08-02 03:27:32 +0000
@@ -337,5 +337,6 @@

 DEFUN ("region-beginning", Fregion_beginning, Sregion_beginning, 0, 0, 0,
-       doc: /* Return position of beginning of region, as an integer.  */)
+       doc: /* Return the integer value of point or mark, whichever is smaller.
+Signal an error if the region is not active.  */)
   (void)
 {
@@ -344,5 +345,6 @@

 DEFUN ("region-end", Fregion_end, Sregion_end, 0, 0, 0,
-       doc: /* Return position of end of region, as an integer.  */)
+       doc: /* Return the integer value of point or mark, whichever is larger.
+Signal an error if the region is not active.  */)
   (void)
 {